That is one huge urban sprawl. Everyone is building anywhere and everywhere. the roads don't have sidewalks. There should an urban/rural boundary zone. Parts of the town will need to be demolished to put up court house, fire station, hospitals, schools.

We really need urban planners or town planners.

I don't like urban sprawl. It makes cities very expensive. I'm okay with the urban decay of Nairobi core because it can easily be solved. That urban mess in DC is beyond redemption. One day the govt will have to build an expressway all the way to Namanga. Even the guy who did the video is complaining on how you are grabbing pastureland.

These majangili are now behind bars. kudos to DCI Kenya.

Wukan, kuwa serious,
The video is about as germane to our local context as Thanksgiving Turkey to the average Kenyan.

1. The USA is a mature economy in decline, Kenya is a developing economy that is just getting started. We had a long discussion hapa about the same. The property dynamics between the two are like night and day. Huge debt - and the resultant boom/bust price cycles - is the opium of the property markets in the USA. In Kenya we have a paltry 100k or less mortgages in the whole country. In DC probably 60-80 percent of homeowners do not owe a single ndururu on their mansions. Hence the prices going nowhere but up long term.

2. Property taxes as a major factor in any issue in DC is next to ZERO. Half the video yaps about property taxes.

3. Kenya has sooo much undeveloped land that it is comical for you to compare it to to super urbanized USA where even every rural Hamlet has stima and a tarmack road nearby. Maybe when our economy matures to stima and tarmack in every village, zero slums and 90 percent population resident in urban areas can you even start to compare. Reaching that point may take 200 years!! As it did for the USA!

Bottom line tis a big joke to compare the two. In Kenya the suburban (satellite city) boom HAS NOT EVEN STARTED YET. Isitoshe our system has inbuilt mechanisms to ensure property prices keep going up with no structural end in sight - very little debt percentagewise fueling homeownership, super high birth rates, growing infrastructure, swelling middle classes and middle class purchasing power plus a hard-working population unspoiled by the welfare dole or any significant social safety net. Work or starve is the status quo. The property sector in such an economy si mjezo my friend, this is why prices have been going up in almost linear fashion since the mid 1960s with no end in sight 😎

Wukan has admitted several times papa hapa that he is a lucky sperm/silver spoon scion waiting for mama and papa to kick the bucket so he can inherit their old money.
I suspect his parents were that first wave of entrepreneurs from Muranga who bought up much of the River Road muhindi shops in the 1960s and 1970s. He seems very bitter when regular chaps who sweated for every coin they have are making moves in DC (the "I must be the only rich one and everybody else must be bitterly poor" mentality.) Isapite.